Watkins Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Watkins Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Watkins Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (73) and tree cover (65). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Watkins Street, with 119 reports. Across every category, 607 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 41 reports, then heat and hot water at 37. The file runs across 44 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Watkins Street carries roughly 93 reports per 100 of them.
Watkins Street carries 94 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Watkins Street is pests, at 43 violations. Structure accounts for 35 more, and doors for 34. PLUTO counts 94 residential buildings and 650 homes on Watkins Street, with 37 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.9 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Watkins Street ranks 59 on parking and 26 on quietness. That 26 on quietness puts Watkins Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 51 and cleanliness at 41. The citywide frame puts transit at 59 and food nearby at 55. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Watkins Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Watkins Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 73.
49% of the 650 homes recorded on Watkins Street are rent-stabilized, 315 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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